Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Creating Views

You can create several different types of views in SQL Server 2012, including standard views, indexed views, and partitioned views. Standard views are like those that have been discussed thus far in this chapter; they let you achieve most of the benefits associated with views. An indexed view has a unique clustered index defined on it that causes the view to be materialized. In other words, the creation of the index causes physical storage of the data related to the view’s index. Partitioned views join horizontally partitioned data from a set of distinct tables. They can be locally partitioned, meaning that the tables are on the same server; or they can be distributed, meaning that some of the tables exist on other servers. Partitioned ...